Milwaukee-area clubs will hold their 14th annual Distinguished Philatelist
Appreciation Dinner on March 19, 2000. This year's honoree is Robert J. Mother.
Bob has repeatedly supported the hobby of stamp collecting both in the Milwaukee
area and statewide. In 1993, he was inducted into the Wisconsin Philatelic Hall
of Fame.

Special show features include a display of a REAL copy of the Inverted Jenny
and a booth with Richard Bye and his amazing stamp carvings. You'll also want
to attend Bill Robinson's Sunday afternoon auction.

Weekend show attendees are urged to make hotel reservations early, as space
is already getting tight. See lodging options on p. 10. •

The show paid
tribute to the 125th anniversary of the first all-mail train in the U.S. with a
cover depicting an old print showing a railroad mail train being loaded. To mail
order, send a No, 10 SASE plus $1.75 each to: Kenosha Stamp and Cover Club, P.O.
Box 1524, Kenosha, WI 53141.

When attending
MILCOPEX 2000 (September 15-17), keep in mind that although the show's general
location is the same as usual, this year's event will be held in the South
Exhibit Hall rather than in the Youth Center Building. Enter the Wisconsin State
Fair Park via Gate 2 at South 84th Street and West Greenfield Avenue.

POLISH
AMERICAN STAMP CLUB HONORS POLISH FEST 2000 (June 23-25) A set of three

A set of three
multicolored postcards was produced to commemorate the 2000 event. The cards
feature Pope John Paul II and mark the pope's 80th birthday through recent
Polish stamps engraved by Czeslaw Slania.

To order the set of
three postcards, send $2.50 and a SASE to: Polish American Stamp Club, P.O. Box
1920, Milwaukee, WI 53201. Make checks payable to the club.

Verna
Shackleton Receives COROS Founders Award

On June 17, Verna
Shackleton, of Appleton, WI, received the Collectors of Religion on Stamps
Founders Award, which honors achievement in religious philately.

Verna has served as
COROS secretary for 17 years. She has contributed articles for The COROS
Chronicle and has extensively exhibited her collection of European churches
on stamps

Verna
is the WFSC's historian. She also is a member of the Wisconsin Philatelic Hall
of Fame. •

The Cinderella
circus wagon is featured on the multicolored cachet of MPS's 2000 circus
parade cover. Covers were canceled each day of the parade celebration with a
pictorial seal postmark. The celebration was held July 13-16 at the lakefront
Veterans Park show grounds.

MPS has issued
circus parade covers for each year 1971-73 and 1985-2000. Cost of the 2000 cover
is $2 each or $6 for a set of four. Send orders to; MPS Circus Covers, P.O. Box
1980, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1980. Make checks payable to MPS and include a No. 10
SASE.

MILCOPEX
'00, sponsored by the Milwaukee Philatelic Society, was held September 15-17 at
State Fair Park in West Allis. Congratulations to Wisconsin exhibitors who won
the following awards at this national-level show:

Open
Competition

Gold - The
Donkey in Man's World, by Robert J. Mather

• ATA Gold Medal

• First - MPS
Members Exhibit Award

Gold -
Greenland: The American Issue, by Charles Shoemaker

Vermeil - Greenland:
Military/Censored Mail, by Charles Shoemaker

• AAPE Award of
Honor

Silver - Turners,
by Robert Gould

Silver - U. S. Forces
in Bermuda, by John Pare

Silver - Apollo-Soyuz
Test Program (ASTP) Flight, by Daniel Hammell

• ATA Space Unit
Gold Award

Silver-Bronze -Mythical
"People" in Space Flight, by Jack Green

Cert. - Germany
- French Units in the Wehrmacht 1941-45, by Roger Szymanski

• Second - MPS
Members Exhibit Award

One-Frame
Competition

Cert. - Great
Britain Penny Reds, by Gary Zink

• Third - MPS
Members Exhibit Award

Display
Class

Silver - Mountaineering,
by Robert Gould

Youth

Vermeil - On
Wisconsin, by Danielle Henak

• NAYSEC Youth
Grand Award

• JPA Blue Ribbon

• AAPE Award of
Honor

• ATA One-Frame
Merit Award

Silver - Bears
and What They Eat, by Brigid Schultz

• ATA Youth Award

Silver-Bronze - Christian
Religious Art, by Monica Schultz

• JPA H.E. Harris
Ribbon

Bronze - Space
- The Final Frontier, by Elliot Zink

• ISWSC
Certificate

ATA Space Unit
Bronze Award

MILWAUKEE
PHILATELIC SOCIETY OFFERS BEP CARDS

MPS is offering its
limited remaining supply of Bureau of Engraving and Printing souvenir cards
specially produced for MILCOPEX 2000 banquet attendees.

The engraved
vignette reflects naval preparedness with an eagle image to complement the
military postal history theme of the show. Cards are overprinted with red
lettering and postmarked September 16. For further information about this offer,
contact: MPS, P.O. Box 1980, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1980.

WaUSApex
DISPLAY WINNINGS

On September 30, the
Wisconsin Valley Philatelic Society sponsored WaUSApex 2000. Eight displays were
judged by People's Choice ballots with the following results: